Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neur...

Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience (Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition)
Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 27, 2009
• Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1405122889
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 87
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 0.82 x 9.7 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #453,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #125 in Neuroscience (Books) #200 in Cognitive Psychology (Books) #246 in Linguistics (Books)

Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes tothe heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefitfrom the recent advances of cognitive science and the development ofinformation theory over the course of the last several decades. A provocativeargument that impacts across the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, andneuroscience, suggesting new perspectives on learning mechanisms in thebrainProposes that the field of neuroscience can and should benefit from therecent advances of cognitive science and the development of informationtheorySuggests that the architecture of the brain is structured precisely forlearning and for memory, and integrates the concept of an addressableread/write memory mechanism into the foundations of neuroscienceBased onlectures in the prestigious Blackwell-Maryland Lectures in Language andCognition, and now significantly reworked and expanded to make it ideal forstudents and faculty Read more